check out intel's curie module (their really BAD arduino chip found in the arudino101 board). its a horrible chip and intel actually made that chip the center of their reality tv show 'americas greatest makers'. little known fact: the contestants on that show tried using the chip and all its features and almost everyone failed, even with intel's help. I can't tell you how I know, but I know this for a fact.
a prime time tv event and intel farked it up.
only intel could make such a mess and squander such a good chance to get a message out and create some buzz and goodwill. 'makers' still refuse to use intel for many reasons and the biggest: intel still has NO CLUE what the maker market is really about. curie is not a maker chip and so far, no one really is taking that chip seriously.
that's one example. but it seems typical of intel these days.
its like what george carlin said about the republicans. they seem to 'care a huge amount' about the unborn babies, but once you are born - until you reach military age - you are not important to them.
they 'care' only as far as their holy book is interpreted as saying. once born, they could not care less about you or your kids.
same here; the companies really don't care about workers or people. its ONLY about the bottom line. they are completely untrustable in anything they say. capitalism has gone off the rails and it really is headed for a trainwreck. it simply is not sustainable in its current form. but don't look now; just keep going. that's their view. don't think - just keep lining our wallets!
pathetic.
I'm part of silicon valley, but part of me hopes it all melts down. we need a reboot. a serious one, at that.
I was a contractor at intel. I did a great job (got great reviews, led the group in its mission, trained my own local guys for the task, etc) and at the end of the project, I was unhirable. I was white. intel hires MOSTLY 'for diversity' and I was told flat-out that I was the 'wrong color' and intel needed more non-whites.
again, FUCK INTEL. they are a useless company, for the most part, and they go out of their way to be political. especially when they can hire foreigners, abuse them and underpay them.
should I feel AT ALL sorry for the companies that have been, for YEARS, abusing the h1b program and displacing local workers?
I could not care less (seriously, I could not) about those companies. they put me and others like me out of work for years at a time and they reaped huge profits.
if they were smart, they would have saved that money and could rely on it now.
they did not? really? ok, let me get out my tiny violin and play a tune for them.
PAIN is a motivating factor. these companies DESERVE to feel pain.
I worked at cisco back in the early 90's when it was 3 buildings in menlo park. I later returned about 2 yrs ago for a short contract job.
the company change was night and day, of course (they now have over 25 buildings in san jose, alone). what I noticed is that they no longer have the 'best and brightest' but they are an h1b farm, pretty much.
do you want crappy code and bugs? cause this is how you get crappy code and bugs....
cisco is a has-been, for the most part. some smart people are still there, but mostly its a 9-5 job with average people doing the needful, then going home. no one really cares, from what I could see when I was there last. and if you dare DO care, they cancel you or fire you.
I would never recommend people buy cisco anymore unless its the only product that will do what you want; and other than core routers, I'm not sure they have any products that are 'must have's.
I gave up on pfsense. it does not fail gracefully. lose power and reboot and eventually you get corrupted boot media. when that happens, remote mgmt task crashes and you have to reinstall.
too bad. monowall was good but pfsense was horrible for me.
indians tend to vote more republican, is my experience. they 'like' authority and authoritarian concepts. its deep in their culture. and this aligns perfectly with R-based thoughts.
Those workers who come to the United States are more likely to be the ones who starts new companies in their home country.
bullshit.
I have lived in the bay area for over 25 yrs and have 'trained my replacements' countless times.
indians who are brought here to work at the likes of intel, cisco, apple, fb, twitter and so on - they are not any smarter than the avergage local IT guy. they are not horrible people but they are not special, either, and this is the whole point - you can find 'regular old IT people' anywhere and you don't have to fly them in from india and china (why is china not mentioned, btw? lots of h1b's are from all over asia, not just india).
you won't find regular people starting new companies.
now, at the smaller 100 person startups (I'm at one now) you CAN find folks from india who are the best in their field. but these are not h1bs! they are indians who came to the US and now live here with intention of staying. we have some really good engineers from india at my place, but when I was at cisco (etc) - it was nothing special and everyone was mediocre, at best, there. and the place was FLOODED with folks from india; you would go a whole day and not hear english spoken in the hallways (cisco is famous for that, sadly).
the best and brightest don't need sponsors such as h1b to get them here; their own intelligence will get them regular jobs. h1b is entirely just to displace local workers with cheap labor AND THAT'S ALL IT WAS EVER MEANT TO BE.
the jig is up, guys. and its about time! I hope its real, this time, though. something tells me that the orange haired monkey that is now running this country will not really care much about US; and he'll do whatever he wants to make himself better off. the rest of us, I seriously doubt he has our best interests at heart. not a republican big businessman. those are the very people that exclusively abuse this program and benefit directly from it!
once they learn that the US's infrastructure IS a key reason why the US is the #1 tech country - they'll be back.
bribes, outages, low service standards, low quality of work, all that will add up and companies have already learned that its not a good plan, long-term, to do this.
I've said this before and it still stands: there needs to be a secret shopper program of sorts where test applicants (who have really good backgrounds that match the skills needed) apply and if they are rejected, a hearing is held. public embarassment would result from any company who was cheating.
it would be a bit of work to set it up and manage it, but the alternative is not working at all (ie, trust system).
I've often thought about this. I have been out of work for months and months at a time and yet I'm pretty well qual'd for many jobs. I applied for quite a few, several that were 'below' me since I needed to eat and would take any job I could get that would keep food on the table. even those, I could not get. I knew something was 'up' but no one really cares (who has power to change things).
I'm now employed, but during my 'out' months, it was a real struggle to find a company who would hire an older american and who needs a local salary grade to afford US style expenses.
I'd have volunteered to be a secret shopper. I'd enjoy it, in fact, since I would know that bad co's would be brought to justice.
its not racist when you can SEE with your own lying eyes that the bay area companies (I live here) are going out of their way to hire folks from india and china, first. the ONLY reason they do this is for money and servitude reasons.
when I interview and everyone on the table is indian, I can tell that there is a total loss of BALANCE in racial and cultural mix. the bay area is very india-populated but not THAT much that 99% of the folks I talk to in every single interview are all indian, with occasional chinese.
it simply does not represent the population mix and that's obvious to anyone who spends even a week here.
no, the analog wiggles on a vinyl track are even LESS accurate reps of the real original master.
not to mention that no sylus in the world can track all grooves 100% perfectly. and if you play a record just once, you ruined it (irreversable wear).
there are many steps between the master tape and the grooves on the lp. if you think that's 'real analog' you have a lot of reading to do. masters are all digital now and you HAVE to go thru dac phase just to cut the grooves.
the thing about records: for many, they want to own the actual record and so this increases SALES. you can't directly bit-copy it and most home a/d converters suck, so copies would suck (not to mention most riaa phone preamps are junk unless you pay a lot).
so, its not technically drm but it does encourage more sales than copies.
I think that is 99% why they are still being made. purely because the rubes keep BUYING them.
records are not lossless and every copy is unique and imperfect. not only that, but the act of PLAYING it destroys and degrades the medium.
I grew up with lp's and I'm happy to say that the last one I played was well over 20 yrs ago.
today's dacs are so good and the a/d's in studios are so good, there is zero reason for using lp's at home.
the ONLY valid reason is that the mix is intentionally different, which makes zero sense. there is more dyn range in cd and 'files' than any LP could produce. and yet, they put better mixes on records for pure marketing reasons.
dacs can do 24/192k and even DSD. records are about 1/10 of that or even less.
what you fail to understand is that, in a bad econ (ie, this one!) that people may be in dire need of a job and are quite willing to downgrade the pay just to stay working.
of course, you, mr. asswipe, are in the lap of luxury and you don't need to feel sympathy for those who really want to work, even at a pay cut.
(asshole!)
and even good people get fired. hope you learn that lesson someday; you could learn a bit from that experience and something tells me you are in need of some humility.
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oh wow, that's the funniest thing I've read in a long time!!
but its so marvelously clever, too. it would halt the abuse of dmca since the 'bots' can't really just auto-fax or snail mail so easily.
it will also COST THEM REAL MONEY. and that's just icing on the cake.
check out intel's curie module (their really BAD arduino chip found in the arudino101 board). its a horrible chip and intel actually made that chip the center of their reality tv show 'americas greatest makers'. little known fact: the contestants on that show tried using the chip and all its features and almost everyone failed, even with intel's help. I can't tell you how I know, but I know this for a fact.
a prime time tv event and intel farked it up.
only intel could make such a mess and squander such a good chance to get a message out and create some buzz and goodwill. 'makers' still refuse to use intel for many reasons and the biggest: intel still has NO CLUE what the maker market is really about. curie is not a maker chip and so far, no one really is taking that chip seriously.
that's one example. but it seems typical of intel these days.
are we not cheeto?
WE ARE DEVO!
(sorry) ;)
its like what george carlin said about the republicans. they seem to 'care a huge amount' about the unborn babies, but once you are born - until you reach military age - you are not important to them.
they 'care' only as far as their holy book is interpreted as saying. once born, they could not care less about you or your kids.
same here; the companies really don't care about workers or people. its ONLY about the bottom line. they are completely untrustable in anything they say. capitalism has gone off the rails and it really is headed for a trainwreck. it simply is not sustainable in its current form. but don't look now; just keep going. that's their view. don't think - just keep lining our wallets!
pathetic.
I'm part of silicon valley, but part of me hopes it all melts down. we need a reboot. a serious one, at that.
fuck intel!
I was a contractor at intel. I did a great job (got great reviews, led the group in its mission, trained my own local guys for the task, etc) and at the end of the project, I was unhirable. I was white. intel hires MOSTLY 'for diversity' and I was told flat-out that I was the 'wrong color' and intel needed more non-whites.
again, FUCK INTEL. they are a useless company, for the most part, and they go out of their way to be political. especially when they can hire foreigners, abuse them and underpay them.
"let me show you something. here, hold my brawndo." ...its coming soon to a country we are very familiar with. ;(
should I feel AT ALL sorry for the companies that have been, for YEARS, abusing the h1b program and displacing local workers?
I could not care less (seriously, I could not) about those companies. they put me and others like me out of work for years at a time and they reaped huge profits.
if they were smart, they would have saved that money and could rely on it now.
they did not? really? ok, let me get out my tiny violin and play a tune for them.
PAIN is a motivating factor. these companies DESERVE to feel pain.
lots and lots of it.
I worked at cisco back in the early 90's when it was 3 buildings in menlo park. I later returned about 2 yrs ago for a short contract job.
the company change was night and day, of course (they now have over 25 buildings in san jose, alone). what I noticed is that they no longer have the 'best and brightest' but they are an h1b farm, pretty much.
do you want crappy code and bugs? cause this is how you get crappy code and bugs....
cisco is a has-been, for the most part. some smart people are still there, but mostly its a 9-5 job with average people doing the needful, then going home. no one really cares, from what I could see when I was there last. and if you dare DO care, they cancel you or fire you.
I would never recommend people buy cisco anymore unless its the only product that will do what you want; and other than core routers, I'm not sure they have any products that are 'must have's.
so....
your boss is just doing the needful, eh?
I gave up on pfsense. it does not fail gracefully. lose power and reboot and eventually you get corrupted boot media. when that happens, remote mgmt task crashes and you have to reinstall.
too bad. monowall was good but pfsense was horrible for me.
indians tend to vote more republican, is my experience. they 'like' authority and authoritarian concepts. its deep in their culture. and this aligns perfectly with R-based thoughts.
mcdebian and linksys - check it out.
apt-get goodness for the win!
Those workers who come to the United States are more likely to be the ones who starts new companies in their home country.
bullshit.
I have lived in the bay area for over 25 yrs and have 'trained my replacements' countless times.
indians who are brought here to work at the likes of intel, cisco, apple, fb, twitter and so on - they are not any smarter than the avergage local IT guy. they are not horrible people but they are not special, either, and this is the whole point - you can find 'regular old IT people' anywhere and you don't have to fly them in from india and china (why is china not mentioned, btw? lots of h1b's are from all over asia, not just india).
you won't find regular people starting new companies.
now, at the smaller 100 person startups (I'm at one now) you CAN find folks from india who are the best in their field. but these are not h1bs! they are indians who came to the US and now live here with intention of staying. we have some really good engineers from india at my place, but when I was at cisco (etc) - it was nothing special and everyone was mediocre, at best, there. and the place was FLOODED with folks from india; you would go a whole day and not hear english spoken in the hallways (cisco is famous for that, sadly).
the best and brightest don't need sponsors such as h1b to get them here; their own intelligence will get them regular jobs. h1b is entirely just to displace local workers with cheap labor AND THAT'S ALL IT WAS EVER MEANT TO BE.
the jig is up, guys. and its about time! I hope its real, this time, though. something tells me that the orange haired monkey that is now running this country will not really care much about US; and he'll do whatever he wants to make himself better off. the rest of us, I seriously doubt he has our best interests at heart. not a republican big businessman. those are the very people that exclusively abuse this program and benefit directly from it!
just about the worst pres we ever had.
war on drugs almost killed us. 'trickle down' just was someone pissing on my pants leg. I did not see any gain but the rich fucks sure did!
ronny set us back a good 20 years. I hope he burns in hell.
good! those are jobs we'd never have anyway.
once they learn that the US's infrastructure IS a key reason why the US is the #1 tech country - they'll be back.
bribes, outages, low service standards, low quality of work, all that will add up and companies have already learned that its not a good plan, long-term, to do this.
if you tried, it would be a one-way trip.
who would hire you after that? lawsuits are public record and your name would be out there.
I can't afford to 'retire' now. can you? most cant.
I've said this before and it still stands: there needs to be a secret shopper program of sorts where test applicants (who have really good backgrounds that match the skills needed) apply and if they are rejected, a hearing is held. public embarassment would result from any company who was cheating.
it would be a bit of work to set it up and manage it, but the alternative is not working at all (ie, trust system).
I've often thought about this. I have been out of work for months and months at a time and yet I'm pretty well qual'd for many jobs. I applied for quite a few, several that were 'below' me since I needed to eat and would take any job I could get that would keep food on the table. even those, I could not get. I knew something was 'up' but no one really cares (who has power to change things).
I'm now employed, but during my 'out' months, it was a real struggle to find a company who would hire an older american and who needs a local salary grade to afford US style expenses.
I'd have volunteered to be a secret shopper. I'd enjoy it, in fact, since I would know that bad co's would be brought to justice.
its not racist when you can SEE with your own lying eyes that the bay area companies (I live here) are going out of their way to hire folks from india and china, first. the ONLY reason they do this is for money and servitude reasons.
when I interview and everyone on the table is indian, I can tell that there is a total loss of BALANCE in racial and cultural mix. the bay area is very india-populated but not THAT much that 99% of the folks I talk to in every single interview are all indian, with occasional chinese.
it simply does not represent the population mix and that's obvious to anyone who spends even a week here.
no, the analog wiggles on a vinyl track are even LESS accurate reps of the real original master.
not to mention that no sylus in the world can track all grooves 100% perfectly. and if you play a record just once, you ruined it (irreversable wear).
there are many steps between the master tape and the grooves on the lp. if you think that's 'real analog' you have a lot of reading to do. masters are all digital now and you HAVE to go thru dac phase just to cut the grooves.
I won't let a bd player on my network. I own 1 bd disc and I bought it before I knew how bad bd was. package never even got unwrapped.
downloading is the only way to go. no ads, no bs and it plays everywhere.
the thing about records: for many, they want to own the actual record and so this increases SALES. you can't directly bit-copy it and most home a/d converters suck, so copies would suck (not to mention most riaa phone preamps are junk unless you pay a lot).
so, its not technically drm but it does encourage more sales than copies.
I think that is 99% why they are still being made. purely because the rubes keep BUYING them.
pirate bay (etc) has tons of sacd and dsd files at 88.2 and 176.4k.
somehow (playstation?) they ripped them digitally.
its still hard to rip sacd but not impossible.
today's dacs can play up to 192k and even dsd direct.
they used to make spring suspension record players for cars! long time ago, 50's I think.
there was also a spring reverb with a sender and receiver across 2 literal metal springs. they had those for car audio, too ;)
records are not lossless and every copy is unique and imperfect. not only that, but the act of PLAYING it destroys and degrades the medium.
I grew up with lp's and I'm happy to say that the last one I played was well over 20 yrs ago.
today's dacs are so good and the a/d's in studios are so good, there is zero reason for using lp's at home.
the ONLY valid reason is that the mix is intentionally different, which makes zero sense. there is more dyn range in cd and 'files' than any LP could produce. and yet, they put better mixes on records for pure marketing reasons.
dacs can do 24/192k and even DSD. records are about 1/10 of that or even less.
sigh ;(
what you fail to understand is that, in a bad econ (ie, this one!) that people may be in dire need of a job and are quite willing to downgrade the pay just to stay working.
of course, you, mr. asswipe, are in the lap of luxury and you don't need to feel sympathy for those who really want to work, even at a pay cut.
(asshole!)
and even good people get fired. hope you learn that lesson someday; you could learn a bit from that experience and something tells me you are in need of some humility.